W32.Blaster.Worm If you have sudden problems with XP/2000 yesterday

[berryhappy]

berryhappy, this means that you can set your computer's date to anywhen before august 15 and you won't be affected by the worm's blockade to windowsupdate.com

huh? i still dun get it...this means that if your computer date is set on august 16 you will not be able to assess windowsupdate.com to download the patch?

 

[sehsuan]

huh? i still dun get it...this means that if your computer date is set on august 16 you will not be able to assess windowsupdate.com to download the patch?

apparently so. i remember reading, if the date was rolled back to say, prior to 16 aug 2003, you still can patch windows...